17 Mar16:26
17 Mar16:26
Mar 2019
Mar 2019
Pool Re, Britain’s state-backed terrorism reinsurer, has broken new ground with its placement of a GBP £75 million catastrophe bond...
15 Mar16:22
15 Mar16:22
Pool Re, Britain’s state-backed terrorism reinsurer, has today completed placement of its £2.3 billion retrocession programme with more than 50 international reinsurers...
01 Mar16:27
01 Mar16:27
Pool Re welcomed Royal Assent being given to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2018 which will allow Pool Re to cover losses incurred if a business cannot trade...
13 Jan12:30
13 Jan12:30
Jan 2019
Jan 2019
Pool Re announced that as a result of sufficient capacity now existing within the commercial insurance and reinsurance markets to cover contingency losses arising from acts of terrorism...
02 Apr16:36
02 Apr16:36
Apr 2018
Apr 2018
In April 2018, Pool Re extend its cover to include material damage and direct business interruption caused by acts of terrorism using a cyber trigger...
16 Jan16:35
16 Jan16:35
Jan 2018
Jan 2018
16 Nov16:37
16 Nov16:37
Nov 2017
Nov 2017
03 Jun16:41
03 Jun16:41
Jun 2017
Jun 2017
On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing took place in London, England. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge before crashing on the south bank...
22 May16:43
22 May16:43
May 2017
May 2017
The Manchester Arena bombing was a suicide bombing attack in Manchester, United Kingdom on 22 May 2017. A radical Islamist detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb...
22 Mar15:00
22 Mar15:00
Mar 2017
Mar 2017
On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. The attacker, 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood, drove a car into pedestrians
12 Apr16:46
12 Apr16:46
Apr 2016
Apr 2016
The establishment of the so-called Caliphate in 2014 saw a significant shift in the threat from threats posed by the IRA to those posed by Islamist extremists...
02 Mar14:10
02 Mar14:10
Mar 2015
Mar 2015
An historic milestone for terrorism (re)insurance in the UK. On 02 March 2015, Pool Re announced that it had purchased reinsurance in the commercial market for the first time in its history...
30 Aug13:14
30 Aug13:14
Aug 2013
Aug 2013
In August 2013, a group calling themselves the Angry Foxes Cell said they had set fire to the partially-built £16m police firearms training centre in Portishead...
07 Jul11:15
07 Jul11:15
Jul 2005
Jul 2005
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks in London...
13 Apr17:16
13 Apr17:16
Apr 2003
Apr 2003
Since its start, the scheme has adapted to changing circumstances in the insurance market. The most significant changes occurred after the attacks in America on September 11th 2001...
03 Aug17:17
03 Aug17:17
Aug 2001
Aug 2001
On 3 August 2001, the Real IRA, a dissident Irish republican organisation and splinter of the Provisional IRA, detonated a car bomb containing 100 lb (45 kg) of homemade plastic explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London...
04 Mar17:18
04 Mar17:18
Mar 2001
Mar 2001
Between ten and twenty pounds of high explosive had been placed in a red taxi that had been purchased on the morning of 3 March in Edmonton, north London...
15 Jun17:22
15 Jun17:22
Jun 1996
Jun 1996
The 1996 Manchester bombing was an attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Saturday 15 June 1996. The IRA detonated a 1,500-kilogram (3,300 lb) Lorry bomb...
09 Feb17:20
09 Feb17:20
Feb 1996
Feb 1996
The London Docklands bombing (also known as the South Quay bombing or erroneously referred to as the Canary Wharf bombing) occurred on 9 February 1996, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb in South Quay...
13 Aug17:24
13 Aug17:24
Aug 1994
Aug 1994
On August 13 1994 at 5.57pm Bognor Regis trembled when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded in the town centre...
26 Jul17:26
26 Jul17:26
Jul 1994
Jul 1994
The 1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing was a car bomb attack on 26 July 1994 against the Israeli embassy building in London...
26 Jul17:25
26 Jul17:25
In 1994 bomb was exploded outside Balfour House, Finchley, premises occupied by the Jewish Philanthropic Institution for Israel...
18 Feb17:27
18 Feb17:27
Feb 1994
Feb 1994
Incendiary devices and one very small high explosive device were planted in various London shops...
27 Jan17:27
27 Jan17:27
Jan 1994
Jan 1994
13 Aug17:29
13 Aug17:29
Aug 1993
Aug 1993
On 13 August 1993, the IRA planted 8 bombs around the British town of Bournemouth of which 5 were detonated...
24 Apr17:30
24 Apr17:30
Apr 1993
Apr 1993
The Bishopsgate bombing occurred on 24 April 1993, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a powerful truck bomb on Bishopsgate...
16 Mar17:35
16 Mar17:35
Mar 1993
Mar 1993
Pool Re was established in 1993 as a response to the market failure that was triggered by the bombing of the Baltic Exchange...
10 Apr17:36
10 Apr17:36
Apr 1992
Apr 1992
25 years ago at 9.20pm on the 10 April 1992 an IRA bomb went off outside the Baltic Exchange on St Mary Axe...